My Immortal Love

Written By: Caladhiel Alcarin

Chapter 1

A Mother's Dying Wish

My name is Estelwen Caladhiel Rogers. I live with my mother outside Wellington, New Zealand. I never knew my father, I knew he was still alive, but I knew not where he was. I have long curly-ish black hair, but with natural blond streaks. I had tan skin and I was about 5 foot 4. My eyes are blue, but not an ordinary blue. They are bright, light blue! When I am angry they get dark. Yet even though my eyes were a strange color, this was not what made me so very different from everyone else, even my own mother. My ears were pointed. That was what made me the freak I am. Eventually I stopped caring. And when I had finally finished school, I never interacted with people anymore.

Now I was 23 years old and my mother was dying. No matter how many times I tried, she would not go into Wellington to see a doctor.

"Mum they could help you…"

"~No! Estelwen it is my time.~"

She spoke to me in a language no one else knew. She taught it to me as well as English.

"~Mum you must! I cannot lose you! Not yet!~"

She smiled and touched my face. I held her hand and held back tears.

"~You must listen to me carefully. This is not our true home. We came from a place very far away, where your father still dwells, with your twin brother.~"

"~WHat? Mum I do not have a twin brother.~"

She shook her head.

"~Yes you do! And I have been a foolish woman to keep the truth from you all these years. And now I have no time left. You must find your father and brother. I never should have taken you away, at the time I believed it to be right. Now you must return. When I pass on….you will be taken back. I will always be with you. I love you.~"

Her eyes began to close.

"~No! Mum no! Please! Do not leave me all alone!~"

Tears poured down my face and I shook my head.

"No….no! NO!"

My mother was gone and I was alone. I hugged her and closed my eyes.

"Namarie naneth. Le melon." I whispered.

When I opened my eyes my mother's body was gone and I was not at home. I looked around wildly and tried to find where I was. It was dark outside and there were animals making noise. I was not a stranger to it, my mother and I had lived deep in the woods. But she never allowed me out after dark.

"HELP!"